Nato leaders endorse plans to hand combat command in Afghanistan to local forces by mid-2013 and withdraw fighting troops by 2014.

Colombian officials say left-wing Farc rebels have killed 12 soldiers during a patrol in a remote rural area near the sensitive border with Venezuela.

The UN condemns as "heinous" a suicide attack in Yemen that killed more than 90 soldiers, which al-Qaeda said it carried out.

Former Fifa president Joao Havelange, 96, leaves hospital in Brazil after battling with a serious infection for two months.

A stone discovered by chance on the Isle of Canna is Scotland's first known example of a bullaun "cursing stone", experts reveal.

The US firm SpaceX will try again on Tuesday to launch its re-supply mission to the space station.

Vast numbers of counterfeit Chinese electronic parts are being used in US military equipment, a key Senate committee investigation finds.

The foundation of late US President Ronald Reagan expresses outrage after a vial said to contain his blood is offered for sale at auction.